Donald Lee Ward of Mobile was among 25 men arrested in Pensacola this month during a week-long operation using the Internet to set up sexual meetings with children, the Pensacola News Journal reports.

Operation Blue Shepherd began June 20 with federal, state and local officers participating in the operation.

Police reported in a news conference that the suspects specifically described sexual acts they were going to participate in with children ages 12 to 14, who were actually undercover officers. The suspects drove to the undercover house ostensibly to perform acts of a sexual nature with the children and were arrested upon arrival and questioned, according to police.

Ward, age 40, is still in jail after his arrest on Monday. His bond was set at $300,000.

In other news from the Gulf Coast region:

Destin woman asked to remove adult diaper in TSA search: Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Transportation Safety Administration over the treatment airport officials gave her elderly mother last week during a search at Northwest Florida Regional Airports, the Panama City News Herald reports. The 95-year-old woman, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remover her adult diaper during a TSA pat-down search. The elderly woman suffering from the late stages of Leukemia was searched while trying to make a flight to Michigan in order to be with family.

Florida man arrested for trying to have sex with his family’s dog:Eugene Hickman was arrested Saturday in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, after his grandson saw him attempting to have sex with a dog, the Northwest Florida Daily News. Hickman, 54, is facing an animal cruelty charge, according to a police report. The grandson reported that he had seen Hickman nude in the bedroom on top of the dog, and the family called local police. A 3-year-old bulldog was turned over to animal control to be examined by a veterinarian.